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Application Period Opens for Davis Maine Scholarship for First-Generation College Hopefuls
The Mission will accept applications for the Davis Maine Scholarship Monday, March 31 through Sunday, April 13, 2025. Davis Maine Scholars, who are first-generation college students from Washington and eastern Hancock Counties, are chosen during the Spring of their...
Community Profile: The Island Reader Editors
Every fall, a request goes out to the residents of Maine’s unbridged islands, asking them to send in their prose, photographs, poetry, and paintings to The Island Reader. Then, in the spring, the editors go through the submissions helping put together the final issue...
Activities Springing Up on the Downeast Campus
Join the Mission for fun, family-friendly activities on Saturdays this spring. After a great winter of ice skating and other outdoor recreation, the momentum continues with programs every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. starting on Saturday, April 19. There will also...
Mission Offers CPR and First Aid Training to Island Fishermen
The Mission is partnering with Fishing Partnership Support Services to offer two CPR and First Aid Courses for fishermen on Great Cranberry Island on Tuesday, April 15, and on Isle au Haut on Thursday, April 17. Running from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., these classes are...
Community Partner Profile: Women for Healthy Rural Living (WHRL)
Every year, the Mission partners with organizations across Maine and beyond to provide services, education, and more to communities Downeast and on Maine Islands. We recently chatted with Lizzie Cunningham with Women for Healthy Rural Living (WHRL), based in...
Visit Matinicus with the Penobscot Theatre Company
Twenty miles off the coast, accessible only by boat or air, is Maine’s most remote year-round island, Matinicus. Several miles even further away is Matinicus Rock, home to one of Maine’s lighthouses and the setting for Penobscot Theatre Company (PCT)’s new show...